Notes of a doctor

Vikenty Veresaev is a doctor, a wonderful writer and translator. After the release of the “notes of the doctor”, an autobiographical story, which was published in 1901, fame came to the author. The book caused hot disputes and a storm of indignation among a well -known part of critics, outraged by the frankness, with which Veresaev shows the inside of the profession. The experiences of the doctor beginner. Difficulties that brought him to despair, the inconsistency between what he was prepared, and what he saw in life, a painful fear of mistakes, which can destroy the innocent patient, dangerous and morally dubious, but necessary experiments in people in search of new Treatment methods, the eternal disaster of Russia - a passion for self -medication and "treatment", as they would say now, with “non -traditional” methods, all these serious problems and issues arising on the path of each doctor, the author shares with readers, making it clear that doctors are the same People who are characterized by doubt and uncertainty